A critical and controversial exploration of global events. Looking at examples such as the Olympic games and Live Aid, acclaimed sociologist Chris Rojek suggests that these kind of events are really about power, manipulation and social control.

Written in a lively and engaging style, this book will enable both supervisors and supervisees to get the best they can from the supervisory experience.

Focusing on organisation improvement and strategical leadership, this book offers a bank of creative ideas and guidance for teachers already in management positions, and those just starting out reflect on their leadership development.

In this fully updated and expanded second edition, Carol Grbich provides a guide through current issues in the analysis of qualitative data.

Written to guide students through complex groupwork situations, this book explores the knowledge, skills and values required for groupwork practice.

The first handbook to provide a state-of-the-art overview of the whole field of QDA, and a must-have for all qualitative researchers

A strong addtion to the Key Concepts series, this book takes a interdisciplinary and an international approach to this increasingly popular field.

This book will provide your students with a framework for understanding the most common areas of interest for Social Cognition, such as perception, attitudes and stereotyping.

This is a unique methodological resource drawing together contributions from leading scholars across the social sciences, each offering insights into particular measurement-related challenges they have confronted and how they have addressed them.

The Second Edition of the award-winning The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Communication emphasizes constructive conflict management from a communication perspective which places primacy in the message as the focus of conflict research and practice.